FHE.org digest #28
Latest news from the FHE.org community
🗓️ Thank you for making FHE.org Sofia 2025 a success!
With 171 registrations, 27 sponsors (including Google and Amazon!), 19 poster presentations, 12 talks, 1 invited speaker (Craig Gentry!), and 100+ organizations represented, this 4th edition of the FHE.org conference was the most successful to date.
Recorded talks and other resources will be added in the following week.
As we move our focus back to the regularly scheduled FHE.org online meetups, we have already begun planning for next year’s FHE.org.
📺 Now back to our regularly scheduled program
Register for this week’s meetup Bit Security: Optimal Adversaries, Equivalence Results, and a Toolbox for Computational-statistical Security Analysis by Daniele Micciancio, Professor Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, Thursday, Apr 3rd, 2025 at 2PM CEST.
And a quick spoiler of the next meetups:
Exploring General Cyclotomic Rings in Torus-Based Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Part I - Prime Power Instances on April 17th
Ciphertext-Ciphertext Matrix Multiplication: Fast for Large Matrices on June 5th
Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption from Sparse LPN on June 19th
Make sure to subscribe to the lu.ma calendar page to get notified about all future FHE.org Meetups.
Got a paper or presentation you think would make a good meetup? Get in touch at contact@fhe.org
🎓 Updates from Academic Conferences
There were several presentations on FHE at Real World Cryptography (RWC) 2025.
Apple gave a presentation on “Apple’s Real World Deployment of Homomorphic Encryption at Scale” a work by Rehan Rishi, Haris Mughees, Fabian Boemer, Karl Tarbe, Nicholas Genise, Akshay Wadia, and Ruiyu Zhu
Authors from Nokia Bell Labs and COSIC (KU Leuven) presented: “QRYPT: End-to-End Encrypted Audio Calls via Blind Audio Mixing” a work by Emad Heydari Beni and Lode Hoste
Authors from MIT, NVIDIA, Cornell, and the University of Toronto gave a talk on “Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Verifiable FHE Using Commodity Hardware” a work by Jules Drean, Fisher Jepsen, G. Edward Suh, Srini Devadas, Aamer Jaleel, and Gururaj Saileshwar
Videos of these talks can be found on the RWC Youtube channel.
📰🕺 Latest Updates from the FHE.org Community
Previous Meetups and Meet the Community interviews you may have missed:
Discussions on Implementing FHE on GPUs w/ Agnes Leroy
Meet the Community w/ Subhankar Pal
FHE.org Community:
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